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May 15, 2015
Die Heimkehr (The Homecoming) by Bertolt Brecht Written c. 1944
Photo: 4 November 1944. Allied bombs fall on Augsburg, the
town where Brecht was born in 1898.
Verses by Bertolt Brecht, probably written around the end of 1944, at the height of the massive Allied bombing of German cities
Die Heimkehr Bertolt Brecht
Die Vaterstadt, wie find ich sie doch?
Folgend den bombenschwärmen
Komm ich nach Haus.
Wo denn liegt sie? Wo die ungeheueren
Gebirge von Rauch stehn.
Das in den Feuern dort
Ist sie.
Die Vaterstadt, wie empfängt sie mich wohl?
Vor mir kommen die Bomber. Tödliche Schwärme
Melden euch meine Rückkehr. Feuersbrünste
Gehen dem Sohn voraus.
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Engl Transl by John Willett
THE HOMECOMING
My native town: what will it look like?
Guided by bomber squadrons
I shall come home.
Where will it lie? There, where those mountainous
Pinnacles of smoke stand.
There, in the furnace. That
Is it.
My native town: then how will it greet me?
Before me go the bombers. Death-dealing locusts
Tell you I shall be coming. Conflagrations
Hail the son’s return.
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